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Kenneth Turan

Kenneth Turan

Agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

Publications:
Journal News (Westchester, NY) , Los Angeles Daily News , Los Angeles Times , Newsday , NPR's Morning Edition
Critics' Group:
Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics
Total Reviews:
1639

Worst Reviewed Films

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0/5 35% Stolen Summer (2002) " Watching Stolen Summer makes one question the entire Project Greenlight process, starting with the notion that anyone off the street is fit to write and direct a motion picture if only they want it badly enough." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Mar 22, 2002
0/5 45% The Cell (2000) " All torture, all the time, all photographed (by Paul Laufer) and production designed (by Tom Foden) as if it were a TV spot for Chanel." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/5 17% Queen of the Damned (2002) " A muddled limp biscuit of a movie, a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 21, 2002
0.5/5 13% Town & Country (2000) " Without warning, it goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 26, 2001
0.5/5 14% 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) " A film that takes a shot at redefining shameless for a new generation." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 22, 2001
0.5/5 14% Dudley Do-Right (1999) " Though it hurts to think unkind thoughts about the square-shooting Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman who is passionate about right and wrong, in reality casting Fraser as Dudley turns out to be too much of a good thing, a case of Blank Look Overkill." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
0.5/5 27% Hollow Man (2000) " Despite a wealth of special effects and direction by Paul Verhoeven, Mr. Over-the-Top himself, this movie is surprisingly inert, more dull than anything else, with little to recommend it on any level." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
0.5/5 40% The Replacements (2000) " A haphazard film about half as sophisticated as the average beer commercial." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 44% Cowboys & Aliens (2011) " It's hard to say what is most depressing about "Cowboys & Aliens" - the film itself, or the fact that this was the best movie a posse of major Hollywood players could come up with." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 28, 2011
1/5 16% Crossing Over (2009) " Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 27, 2009
1/5 19% Domino (2005) " A fantasy based ever so loosely on the real-life character of the late Domino Harvey, Domino is so over-plotted that it's borderline incomprehensible." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 13, 2005
1/5 13% The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) " With no plot, character or dialogue worth experiencing, let alone remembering, the film merely occupies space on the screen and hopes for the best." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 4, 2005
1/5 55% Ricordati di me, (Remember Me, My Love) (2004) " It's a narcissist's picnic; all of the characters are so unapologetically selfish in their passion to maximize their human potential that it's difficult to care about any of them, one way or another." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 9, 2004
1/5 17% The Perfect Score (2004) " When the most entertaining thing about a film is the printed press material that mimics the look of the test, you know you're in trouble." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 30, 2004
1/5 42% The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) " A feeble retread of adolescent cliches that wastes your time as much as anything else." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 21, 2003
1/5 97% Capturing the Friedmans (2003) " This is finally a particularly naked and invasive form of voyeurism, The Real World for the PBS crowd." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 12, 2003
1/5 43% People I Know (2003) " An ambitious, high-minded flop that wants to do good in the world, a failure with a pedigree, if you will." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 24, 2003
1/5 15% I Spy (2002) " More dead spots than a Jerry Lewis telethon." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Oct 31, 2002
1/5 76% Igby Goes Down (2002) " Igby is ... so irritating that people periodically feel impelled to lash out and hit him out of sheer frustration at the smugness of his baby rebellion. Audiences will likely be tempted to throw a few punches themselves." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 12, 2002
1/5 51% Simone (S1m0ne) (2002) " Unpleasantly glib and relentlessly shallow." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Aug 22, 2002
1/5 22% Mr. Deeds (2002) " It's a film that isn't there, 91 minutes of celluloid without a movie." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 27, 2002
1/5 62% The Salton Sea (2002) " It's difficult to convey how pleased with itself this film is to be inside what it presents as the daring, fascinating world of 'tweakers.'" — Los Angeles Times
Posted Apr 25, 2002
1/5 42% The Majestic (2001) " A derivative, self-satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple-minded if it tried." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Dec 20, 2001
1/5 26% Swordfish (2001) " Whatever interest the film creates is squandered via the smug, showy amorality that runs through it." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jun 7, 2001
1/5 20% Down to Earth (2001) " A feeble effort that feels interminable even at a lean 86 minutes." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 16, 2001
1/5 47% Romance (1999) Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 22% 8MM (1999) " Given that Schumacher and his cohorts have reasons of their own for wanting to make this film, they may be the only people who end up liking it." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 44% Very Bad Things (1998) " ...hollow, simple-minded and about as profound an experience as stepping in a pile of road kill." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 26% Mary Reilly (1996) " Sluggish and interminable, Mary Reilly makes good on little of its potential to be disturbing and none of its chance to be emotionally involving." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 29% Barb Wire (1996) " Made with a wafer-thin stylishness that thinks dressing the Congressionals like storm troopers is creative, Barb Wire plods along, following one pro forma scene with the next." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 14, 2001
1/5 14% The Scarlet Letter (1995) " Though it's unclear what the audience would be for a faithful rendition of the Hawthorne novel, the question of who would ever want to see this one is murkier still." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2001
1/5 13% Fair Game (1995) " The lamest model-turned-actress movie since Lauren Hutton co-starred with Evel Knievel in the misbegotten Viva Knievel!" — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2001
1/5 12% Showgirls (1995) " A film of thunderous oafishness that gives adult subject matter the kind of bad name it does not need or deserve." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2001
1/5 42% Tank Girl (1995) " Watching Tank Girl is as disorienting as waking up in someone else's bad dream. You want to get out as fast as possible, but all the exits seem to be blocked." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2001
1/5 50% Murder in the First (1994) " Woefully over-manipulative and over-the-top." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Feb 13, 2001
1/5 19% The Next Best Thing (2000) " Any room in that freezer for this inadequate, inauthentic, indigestible film?" — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 67% American Psycho (2000) " Stillborn, pointless piece of work." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 30% Jakob the Liar (1999) " Jakob the Liar is so forced that only the interest of a star of Williams' magnitude could have gotten it made." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 31% 28 Days (2000) " 28 Days is too glib too often to make much of an impression any way you look at it." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 48% Love's Labour's Lost (2000) " Worst of all perhaps is Lost's smug air of pleasure at how clever it thinks it's being." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 42% What Planet Are You From? (2000) " Bogs down in weak dramaturgy about love and commitment." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 45% What Lies Beneath (2000) " Feels more planned than passionate." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 9% I Dreamed of Africa (2000) " This is a Laura Ashley on Safari meditation on bored rich people searching for fulfillment and a new life among the photogenic wildlife of Kenya." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 16% The Art of War (2000) " Overly plotted and too coincidence-ridden for a story that's basically about nothing, this is a film that almost is not there." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 68% Dancer in the Dark (2000) " So exasperating in its contradictions, so frustrating in its fakery, so deeply irritating in its pretensions, it's frankly hard to know where to begin to dissect it." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 75% Quills (2000) " Experiencing this pretentious wallow -- overwritten, under-thought and overdone -- is a very sophisticated form of torture." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/5 34% Woman on Top (2000) " Woman on Top can't overcome a story that's little more than a lumpy, uninspired contrivance." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jan 1, 2000
1/4 18% Trapped (2002) " True to its title, it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Sep 23, 2002
37% Behind Enemy Lines (2001) " Pro forma stuff, so much so that you start to wonder why no fetching femme resistance fighter materializes to help the Americans on the ground." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Nov 30, 2001
13% Batman & Robin (1997) " Like stumbling into the world's longest coming attractions trailer, or a product reel for a special-effects house." — Los Angeles Times
Posted Jul 24, 2001
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